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Tuesday, 5 March 2013

Caribbean poetry, Jean Binta Breeze

...wasn easy at all
cep wen
eena de tear up tent
a we blanket
jine wid we glue
we use to watch mawnin star
rise
troo de hole
inna de bamboo shack

an now
sometimes
ah sad
wen a look back - Jean Binta Breeze

Jean "Binta" Breeze, MBE, (born 1956) is a Jamaican dub poet,
and storyteller. She has worked also as a theatre director,
choreographer, actor and teacher. She has performed her work around the
world, in the Caribbean, North America, Europe, South-East Asia and Africa, and been called "one of the most important, influential performance poets of recent years." From Wikipedia.

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Hi! My latest book, Storm Warning, is now available from Amazon. I'm also the author of four novels, The Water of Sunlight, Jessamine, Dido's Prize, and Just an Affair, and of the non-fictional, From the Field to the Legislature: A History of Women in the Virgin Islands. A few of my short stories have been published in The Caribbean Writer and other regional publications. Shoot me an email at onealeugenia [at] gmail [dot] com